📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P161305
Region: Africa
Proposed Development Objective(s)
The proposed project development objectives are to improve the movement of goods and people along Isiolo - Wajir - Mandera part of the Mombasa - Garissa - Wajir - Mandera - Mogadishu roa d corridor and to enhance connectivity between Kenya and Somalia and Ethiopia
Key Results (From PCN)
The expected results indicators includes improvements in:
(i) Travel time between Isiolo-Mandera;
(ii) Vehicle operating costs;
(iii) Internet connection charges;
(iv) Transport cost to users;
(v) Passenger numbers per day along the Isiolo-Mandera corridor;
(vi) Direct project beneficiaries along the Isiolo-Mandera corridor (thousands, of which percentage women); and
(vii) Kilometers of roads (non-rural) rehabilitated (core indicator).
D. Concept Description
The Isiolo-Mandera corridor is among the very few Class A roads that remain unpaved. It transverses a region with rudimentary road infrastructure, isolated and with high incidence of poverty. Upgrading of the road corridor is one of the top priority of the GoK, and consistent with the transport policy of bituminizing of all Class A roads in the country. Improving of the road will no doubt stimulate the development, integrate, and contribute to improving security and bringing about sharing the prosperity of the country with this region.
The strategy for Kenya and its development partners is to support the Government's Vision 2030, which aims for Kenya to achieve Middle Income Status by 2030. The proposed project will support the key pillars of the Vision 2030 including accelerating sustainable growth, reducing inequality, enhancing equity, and managing resource scarcity. The proposed project will complement GoK's efforts in upgrading this transport corridor. Already GoK has committed through its own financing to upgrade 284km of the corridor as indicated in Table 5 below and with the Bank's proposed financing, potentially only 113km will remain unfunded.
